Human rights in Russia week-ending 14 February 2020 - with Vyacheslav Bakhmin

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This week Sergei Nikitin is on vacation and Simon Cosgrove is joined by Vyacheslav Bakhmin, co-chair of both the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Andrei Sakharov Centre in Moscow, and a well-known expert on civil society in Russia. A summary of the week's events, some of which are referred to in the discussion, can be found on our website here. This podcast is in the Russian language.

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Vyacheslav Bakhmin talks about his current work, the role of Liudmila Alekseeva in the history of the Moscow Helsinki Group, differences between generations of Soviet and Russian human rights defenders, the situation of human rights NGOs in Russia today (including Memorial and MHG), the question of relations between civil society and government authorities, the Network case and other recent developments, whether it is possible to be optimistic about developments in Russia and finally the coming centennial of Andrei Sakharov's birth in 2021. The podcast is in Russian. The music is from Igor Stravinsky's Elegy for Solo Viola, played here by Karolina Errera.

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